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We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives. ↗

— Robert Reich

#believe #business #conduct #government #how

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. ↗

— Robert Reich

#build #collaborative #entire #innovative #leader

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. ↗

— Robert Reich

#economic growth #free #free trade #globalization #goods

I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#debate #during #family #freedom #freedom of speech

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. ↗

— Robert Reich

#american #american politics #any #bush #bush administration

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. ↗

— Robert Reich

#comprise #haven #inflation #median #percent

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world. ↗

— Robert Reich

#arab world #authority #high-tech #important #losing

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms. ↗

— Robert Reich

#conservatives #police #radical #want

There are fewer and fewer Republicans. ↗

— Greg Dworkin

#republicans

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives. ↗

— Robert Reich

#conservatives #even #last #liberal #majority